Alfi Basic 30-Ounce Thermal Carafe

Brand: Kaiser
Category: Kitchen

Buy New: $68.00
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Rating:

7 reviews

Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

ASIN: B0001LGW8M

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Alfi's ultra modern Basic Thermal Carafe keeps liquids hot or cold long after it is filled. With its double-walled vacuum glass liner, coffee stays warm up to 12 hours, allowing you to serve and enjoy coffee wherever and whenever you like. Award winning design by Julian Brown & Ross Lovegrove.

Customer Reviews:

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Great thermal, but... November 9, 2009
A. R. Higgins (Queen City, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

but aesthetically it's just too plasticky and cheap after multiple washes. It can cloud up and not quite have the designer look that may appeal to people who think the photos look sexy. Other than that, it performs very well.

1 out of 5 stars

Hi on Fashion, Low on Function August 4, 2007
Magnum
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

The first one we purchased I hardly ever used, the design is awkward so it's not something you can travel with. I thought I would use it more but it sat for months. It keeps beverages hot (or cold) like any good thermos should but I would rather use something that takes up less space. The first problem I encountered was that after tightening the lid, it would seal itself even tighter so I could not get it unscrewed without some considerable force. The one time we did take it on the road, the lid became so tightly sealed that I had to ask my friend who is a rock-climber to unscrew it. He gripped it and turned, after increasing force, the entire top shattered. It's made of fairly weak, thin plastic material. The whole thing just shattered so I wrote to the company that sold it, and they graciously sent me a new one, no questions asked. Shortly thereafter, the new one got dropped in our kitchen, onto a wood floor. We've dropped glasses on the floor and they don't break. This Alfi though, the entire thing shattered. So we've had two of these and both were a disaster.

5 out of 5 stars

Very attractive, works well January 2, 2007
Stephen McHenry (Olney, MD USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

The blue does indeed shimmer; very attractive color and eye catching design. Functionally, it keeps the liquids hot for a couple hours (we have used it exclusively for coffee) and it cleans easily. The wide bottom keeps it stable, the spout pours without dripping, the top requires only a quarter turn to pour. We were specifically looking for a carafe that was not a push button as the inside-the-cap-button mechanism is hard to get clean, so the twist cap feature is to our liking. It is lightweight, seemingly dent resistant, easy to clean.
Seemed expensive for a carafe but I do not regret spending the money on something we use everyday, enjoy using and looking at, and will probably last 10 years.
Designed well, works well: Highly recommended.

1 out of 5 stars

Beautiful carafe has to go back March 20, 2006
Saul Schoenenberger (Sitka, AK United States)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful

This little jewel is beautiful. Thought about keeping it to put silk daisys in, but it cost too much for that.
I washed it with some water and sodium carbonate per instructions and rinsed it and dried it in preperation of using it in the morning. I did not submerge it in water. When I looked at it again, it had water drops between the glass liner and the exterior wall.!! Then some of these drops leaked out of the bottom. It has some kind of round plug in it that the brouchure says to occasionally tighten. But it wouldn't move. Certainly need to wash it occasionally even using fresh gound coffee which does not really get my carafes dirty.
Love it but I can't have it leaking out of the bottom. Have another one just like it and no problem with it. That one keeps the coffee hot for at least 6 1/2 hours which is all the longer my coffee lasts. Problably would keep it hot longer than that.

5 out of 5 stars

It Works! Home-brewed beverages can stay hot and fresh literally all day January 5, 2006
A. Ryan (Westminster, CA USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

The upside to being a coffee fiend is that you develop a taste for the good stuff after a while - and if you're like us, you've found a way to brew some pretty fine java at home. While that's great news for the wallet (as compared to going out for coffee every morning to the tune of 5 bucks or more), it also has a downside: suddenly, the cheap stuff at work seems really bad by comparison. Your travel mug will run out sooner or later...

Enter the space age carafe. I feel kind of dumb for not catching on to this gadget before, but basically I had no idea that something this good actually existed outside of SciFi; a container that really will keep one's beverage piping hot and fresh all day. The Alfi carafe is a marvel of chic design and high quality German manufacturing. The photo doesn't do it justice, the anthracite color is really very pretty and it's enhanced by the semitransparent double walled construction. It does its job with panache and it's easy to clean (but by hand only, please).

My husband received this as a Christmas gift last week and his whole office wants to know where to get one of these. Eye-catching, elegant and simply the best at a very reasonable price - you just can't go wrong with this one. Next year, this is going to be the present for everybody else on my list.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle

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